It made every single concession. Every point it thought the Americans would raise at the table, it gave up before it got there, because this indeed is a craven government.
He was referring to Bill S-9, what we approved yesterday. He was criticizing the very bill that was passed in substantially the same form. He did not agree that the Conservative government was headed in the right direction.
That borders on the hypocritical. If a member who criticizes something vehemently and strongly in opposition has the chance to change it, to improve it, to fix it or to make it better when in power, he or she should do so. But the government goes along and in the course of the last two years has basically passed about 10 Conservative bills substantially in the form that were on the shelf gathering dust. Its members just took them off the shelf, blew off the dust, presented them in the House, put Liberal on them, and now they are being passed.
I am sure some members of the Liberal government are deeply hurt because their party said in the past that it would never cut the deficit on the backs of the sick or the poor and this is exactly what it is now doing.
The Liberals are cutting and transferring the debt from the federal government to the provincial governments. They are cutting health care and welfare services by $7 billion and are calling it the social transfer bill or whatever. This is what they said they would not do.
There have to be some Liberals over there who are hurting, who are bleeding internally, because they are losing their roots. They are losing what they are supposed to be doing in terms of protecting the people who elected them. They are not protecting them. They are going against their wishes. They are breaking a lot of the promises they made in the red book.
During the election they said on free trade that they did not like NAFTA and that they would renegotiate.